On August 16, the anniversary of the police massacre of striking workers
at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, over 5000 mineworkers gathered
on ‘the mountain’ where their comrades had been shot down one year
earlier.

The UGTT and the Popular Front must provide a strategy to finish with
capitalism – no agreement with forces of the old regime! Towards a
revolutionary socialist government of the workers, the youth, the
unemployed and the poor masses!

This year’s CWI Summer School, held in Belgium this week, began with an
inspirational account of the recent dramatic developments of workers’
struggle in South Africa, the important participation of the Democratic
Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) and the launch of the Workers and
Socialist Party (WASP).